The acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, on
Monday read the Riot Act to those planning to foment trouble during
governorship election in Osun State, on Saturday, August 9.
The development followed rising tension among stakeholders
in the state, especially the two leading political parties – the All
Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party.
Speaking with State House correspondents after a closed-door
session he had with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,
Abba warned those who do not have any business in the state not to contemplate
going there.
He said he had studied and made amendments on the
operational order of the election left behind by his predecessor, Muhammed
Abubakar.
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The police boss said he would ensure that the full wrath of
the law was brought on any offender during the election.
He said, “When I took over last Friday, I met an operational
order left by my predecessor in place.
“I went through it quickly and made a number of adjustments
which include the fact that we need to be there early enough, so I adjusted the
time that officers were directed to report.
“I made sure that by Saturday, they were there. And the aim
is that if anyone is training anybody to cause violence, we are telling him
that we would make sure the law takes its course.
“In fact, my advice is this: if you don’t have any business
to do with Osun elections, just don’t go there because the law will catch up
with you. This is my advice.”
Abba added that he would unfold his anti-crime agenda aimed
at containing violent crimes being experienced across the country this week.
“I will like to categorise all of of them, whether
insurgency or kidnapping, or armed robbery, all of them are violent crimes and
the first and foremost thing we are going to do is to make every effort that
they do not continue to spread. And these strategies will come into place
before the end of the week, I assure you,” he said.
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